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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
domnii de la polirom chiar au vrut sa faca o diferenta mare dintre povestile de aici si celalalta carticica ,because this slaps
ma simt implinita acum ca am consumat anul asta atata lovecraft si sunt cam innebunita cu stilul lui de scris desi in unele povesti se cam aseamana narativul
ca fapt divers cred ca in muntii nebuniei ramane preferata mea si poate si ca a fost introducerea mea,dar sincer asta ar trebui sa fie considerata capodopera lui cthulhu ,dagon sunt putin overrated
acum intrebarea mare ,ati mai vorbi cu mine daca as fi si eu regasita printre oamenii cu tatuaj lovecraft inspired??
ma simt implinita acum ca am consumat anul asta atata lovecraft si sunt cam innebunita cu stilul lui de scris desi in unele povesti se cam aseamana narativul
ca fapt divers cred ca in muntii nebuniei ramane preferata mea si poate si ca a fost introducerea mea,dar sincer asta ar trebui sa fie considerata capodopera lui cthulhu ,dagon sunt putin overrated
acum intrebarea mare ,ati mai vorbi cu mine daca as fi si eu regasita printre oamenii cu tatuaj lovecraft inspired??
The ideas are very cool, creative and genuinely scary but Lovecraft's writing structure is repetitive and sluggish.
This was my first time reading Lovecraft, although I’ve read/listened to a lot of things inspired by him. I knew he was racist, but wow wow wow I was still taken aback multiple times. In like multiple ways! So there’s definitely that.
Also everything does start to feel the same after a while. There’s only so many times I can feel creeped out by “nameless horrors”.
All that being said, he is a very good writer, and there were some genuine spooks and gasps. I can tell why he established the conventions of an entire sub-genre, and it’s fun to see those influences in things I love. But I doubt I’ll read any more Lovecraft.
Also everything does start to feel the same after a while. There’s only so many times I can feel creeped out by “nameless horrors”.
All that being said, he is a very good writer, and there were some genuine spooks and gasps. I can tell why he established the conventions of an entire sub-genre, and it’s fun to see those influences in things I love. But I doubt I’ll read any more Lovecraft.
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Strong character development:
No
I knew that Lovecraft was racist but I wasn't prepared for how overt and in your face it was going to be.
But that's not what made me DNF so close to the end. His writing commits the ultimate sin of being boring. Not only that but at no point did I feel remotely spooked.
I was willing to sit in the discomfort of the bigotry to hear the stories that have inspired so many, but it was ultimately a flop. Disappointing.
But that's not what made me DNF so close to the end. His writing commits the ultimate sin of being boring. Not only that but at no point did I feel remotely spooked.
I was willing to sit in the discomfort of the bigotry to hear the stories that have inspired so many, but it was ultimately a flop. Disappointing.
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I really wanted to love you Lovecraft, I really did. But I couldn't, so you get three stars.
The first negative part was the blatant racism, which bothered me more and more, but was only pronounced in the first third or so of the stories. When it got to the part where the narrator had named his pet cat N* Man, I was just like nope, done. I know that people have said that "he's a product of the times" and yea, I get that, but I don't have to agree with it or like it. He was blatantly, offensively racist, and that's a serious negative for me.
Next up, the stories were all very similar. Some of them are obviously related with the same places, creatures and names. The similarity of stories, as well as the fact that every first person narrator seemed to be the exact same person with the exact same thoughts and narration, meant that all the stories blended into each other and I frequently lost track of what was happening and who was who in each story. The connections between the stories made this confusion more pronounced and I can barely recollect separate stories as opposed to one long story with all the weird things included. Of course there were stand outs among the stories, and only one that seemed to have a completely different ending to all the other ones (which I ended up liking a lot for that reason). Many of the stories centered on the same stories, legends, and creatures, which probably confused me more than it should have. If each story was a distinct piece of writing with a distinct narrator and differing modes of story telling with new and different horrors, I would have liked this collection a lot more.
Another annoying bit was the constant repetition of the horrors talked about in the stories as being "too awful for words" or other similar sentences. I know that that was probably the way horror was written back in the day, but sometimes it just struck me that Lovecraft had a limited imagination, and if he only wrote that things were too horrifying for words then maybe the readers would fill it in for themselves with their own imaginations and he wouldn't have to think up actual things to write down. But for me, a reader nearly a hundred years later, it was just a little annoying. Maybe we're desensitised these days, but when I read a horror novel, I want to be scared, or at least a little shocked. The lack of concrete descriptions of these implied horrors didn't really do much for my imagination. It might be unfair to say, but it just seemed like he wasn't trying hard enough to scare people, at least not people now.
I will probably read more Lovecraft in the future if I get my hands on it. I did like most of the stories even if I did get a little annoyed more than once.
The first negative part was the blatant racism, which bothered me more and more, but was only pronounced in the first third or so of the stories. When it got to the part where the narrator had named his pet cat N* Man, I was just like nope, done. I know that people have said that "he's a product of the times" and yea, I get that, but I don't have to agree with it or like it. He was blatantly, offensively racist, and that's a serious negative for me.
Next up, the stories were all very similar. Some of them are obviously related with the same places, creatures and names. The similarity of stories, as well as the fact that every first person narrator seemed to be the exact same person with the exact same thoughts and narration, meant that all the stories blended into each other and I frequently lost track of what was happening and who was who in each story. The connections between the stories made this confusion more pronounced and I can barely recollect separate stories as opposed to one long story with all the weird things included. Of course there were stand outs among the stories, and only one that seemed to have a completely different ending to all the other ones (which I ended up liking a lot for that reason). Many of the stories centered on the same stories, legends, and creatures, which probably confused me more than it should have. If each story was a distinct piece of writing with a distinct narrator and differing modes of story telling with new and different horrors, I would have liked this collection a lot more.
Another annoying bit was the constant repetition of the horrors talked about in the stories as being "too awful for words" or other similar sentences. I know that that was probably the way horror was written back in the day, but sometimes it just struck me that Lovecraft had a limited imagination, and if he only wrote that things were too horrifying for words then maybe the readers would fill it in for themselves with their own imaginations and he wouldn't have to think up actual things to write down. But for me, a reader nearly a hundred years later, it was just a little annoying. Maybe we're desensitised these days, but when I read a horror novel, I want to be scared, or at least a little shocked. The lack of concrete descriptions of these implied horrors didn't really do much for my imagination. It might be unfair to say, but it just seemed like he wasn't trying hard enough to scare people, at least not people now.
I will probably read more Lovecraft in the future if I get my hands on it. I did like most of the stories even if I did get a little annoyed more than once.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
